Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. Her efforts to end the war, along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. Gbowee and Sirleaf, along with Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

1 February 1972

Born on the same birth date (1 February 1972): Christian Ziege

Born on the same birth day (1 February): Anna-Lena Friedsam • Big Boi • Brett Anderson (baseball) • Karen Krantzcke • Mary Jane Reoch • Milan Hodža • Paul Gillmor • Robert Traylor • Shoaib Malik • T. R. Dunn • Takashi Murakami • Óscar Pérez (footballer, born 1973)

Born in the same month (February 1972): Aleksey Naumov (footballer) • Christian Ziege • Drew Bledsoe • February 29 • February 7 • Hisashi (musician) • Jerome Bettis • Jesper Kyd • Manon Rhéaume • Melvin Mora • Naomi Nishida • Philippe Candeloro • Queen Mary of Denmark • Sarah Clarke • Stefano Bettarini • Steve McManaman • Taylor Hawkins • Teodor Currentzis • Ville Haapasalo